Flotta - when news broke that Orkney was to benefit from a massive oil boom. To taste a flavour of the mood in the islands, look no further than the film Local Hero, a huge hit in Britain when it opened [...] - and serves as a powerful symbol of the impact oil has had on the Orkney Islands. A huge orange flame has blazed above the Flotta Oil terminal for almost a quarter of a century now. It can be seen on clear [...] opened in cinemas across the country in 1983. One scene in particular struck a chord with people here. The Hollywood star Burt Lancaster steps out of a helicopter on to a remote Scottish beach. Playing an American

States and one of the principal drafters of the Declaration of Independence, once reflected in a letter written in 1803 to James Monroe that some men were born to serve the human race on a "broad scale" [...] develop new capacities to participate effectively in the new economy that is so revolutionizing the world today. President Clinton, you once stated that in the "new economy, information, education, and motivation [...] sea, we in the Faroes are endeavoring to enter into a variety of collaborations with ocean research centers from around the globe to create a world-class oceanographic center here in the Faroes. It is hoped

In the Faroes not a single drop of oil has been produced yet, but this situation has not prevented income from large oil revenues. In total the Faroese society has made app. 200 million kroner directly [...] included in the overview. It has to be said that several of these projects are being conducted at foreign institutions and universities, and therefore it is difficult to evaluate how large a part of the [...] for the Faroe society. It is all a question of definition”, Mr Joensen points out. He stresses that the overview is only intended to highlight what incomes the various posts in the overview have generated

occupation, a number equal to around a third of the entire Faroese population at the time, it goes without saying that many close bonds were forged, some a lot closer than others. It is estimated that around [...] be here in your charming Council Chamber, in the very heart of Scotland’s beautiful capital. I know I speak for my fellow Faroe Islanders when I say that Edinburgh has aways felt very much like a home away [...] which we see in the ongoing atrocities around the world today. Where a flag at half-mast marking the mourning of lost loved ones and unthinkable suffering can be countered by another flag in a different

large figure does not reflect the size of our petroleum industry (it is still very small) so much as the fact that Newfoundland has a much smaller economy than Norway. In population terms it is one tenth of [...] course only one well, and there will be a need for further drilling and analysis to delineate the field and see if it is commercial. But this first discovery does help confirm the expectation that Faroes will [...] of the size, and in GDP terms even smaller. Accordingly, a relatively small scale of activity has had a large relative effect on Newfoundland. In the Faroes, with less than one-tenth of the population of

again WHAT HAVE WE DONE WRONG? AND HOW CAN WE MAKE UP FOR IT? You yourself have stressed that you will fight for a DEMOCRATIC system in the open society for JUSTICE and PEACE in the world With that in mind: [...] keep in mind She said: Now it is you Americans who have become the victims of a terrible crime and you must suffer horrors that we are so used to Now you can feel on your own skin how it is to be in our [...] different lines that we are used to see What I mean is, we are used to the old saying: an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. On the other hand I don't agree that if you have been hit on one chin then to

place in the Himalaya mountains in 1977 and took up residence in the Pakistani-Indian community in London. There he has lived and worked appearing as a seemingly ordinary man. Benjamin Creme has travelled [...] all" It took the gatering almost twenty minutes to calm down after the man had left in a car belonging to a mr. Gurnam Singh, who had offered to give the man a ride. What happened next gave mr. Gurnam Singh [...] release of Nelson Mandela and more. One prediction that has yet to emerge is a global stock market crash. Maitreya comes not as a religious leader but as an educator in the broadest sense. He will point

having sheeps in the mountains. All though most youngsters live a life similar to other young people in the western world, it still comes with a touch and respect of nature, and when you feel the natures [...] power here in the North Atlantic, you don’t ask why. So what you might say is that the Faroese are born with the respect of nature and resources that world is asking for today. But this does not make the [...] Faroes has been a very remote society without much contact with the world. The Danish colonial rule did not much to help that situation. This has resulted in a distinct culture and language. But it also

Icelandic a direct descendant of the language of the Vikings. In possession of a language, a history and a cultural identity, the Faroese were, in the twentieth century, in a position to develop a modern [...] Sweden to us in the Faroes is a cousin. And Swedish is, like the other branches of the Scandinavian language-tree, a sister-tongue. Older people in Tórshavn may remember that in July 1950 a Swedish ship [...] exist in Iran in the fifties in the last century. Who is to know what would have happened if the Western powers, instead of ruining it, had chosen to support and defend this beacon of democracy in a Shia

the company, which now has a fully developed system with a large sales potential. The company is developing and with an office in Klaksvik, one in Singapore and a training base in Ukraine on the agenda [...] down in a pocketbook, the information is registered in a web-based system and another engineer working on a platform with the same equipment on the other side of the globe, can see that exactly that pump [...] Heini Mikkelsen has a history in the oil industry, and Mr Christian D. Grahn has formerly had his own IT consultancy company, supplying SAP solutions. They recognised the requirement for a system, which